Not surprisingly, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced last week
that it would not consider factors like sustainability and climate change as
it reviews these guidelines in order to issue new recommendations.

Sadly, the USDA is clearly swayed by the meat, egg and dairy industries,
which are powerful lobbyist groups that only have profits as their only
concern.

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